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ArticleMDM policy & practice

Optimal Surveillance Strategies for Early-Stage Cutaneous Melanoma Post Primary Tumor Excision: An Economic Evaluation.

Vasileios Kontogiannis, Diarmuid Coughlan, Mehdi Javanbakht, Patience Kunonga, Fiona Beyer, Catherine Richmond, Andy Bryant, Dalvir Bajwa, Robert A Ellis, Luke Vale

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Article in MDM policy & practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of microsimulation models for skin cancer.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Vasileios KontogiannisPopulation Health Sciences Institute.
Diarmuid CoughlanPopulation Health Sciences Institute.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-3750
Mehdi JavanbakhtPopulation Health Sciences Institute.
Patience KunongaPopulation Health Sciences Institute.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6193-1365
Fiona BeyerPopulation Health Sciences Institute.
Catherine RichmondPopulation Health Sciences Institute.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2940-5197
Andy BryantPopulation Health Sciences Institute.
Dalvir BajwaTranslational and Clinical Research Institute.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0965-7012
Robert A EllisTranslational and Clinical Research Institute.
Luke ValePopulation Health Sciences Institute.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

cost utility analysis, melanoma, microsimulation, surveillance, value of information

Identifiers

PMID35024448
PMCPMC8743969

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